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BY PETER BOYER
Staff Writer
Edmund F. Ackell, vice-' president for health affairs, said Wednesday that he feels he is caught in the middle ofthe dispute between physicians and the county over wages and patient facilities.
Interns and residents at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, Martin Luther King Hospital in Willowbrook and Harbor General Hospital threatened a general strike Monday if demands for higher wages and better patient facilities were not met by the county.
The County-USC Medical Center is the primary teaching facility for the university's Health Sciences Campus.
In an interview. Ackell discussed the threatened strike as well as other key issues affecting the Health Sciences Campus.
"It's hard to respond positively or negatively on the issue
of the strike,” Ackell said. “The patient care facilities at the center leave a lot to be desired, and to bring them up to higher standards would involve a tremendous investment.
“I think the interns and residents are right in terms of patient care facilities. But I do not agree with them in terms of higher pay. They are among the highest paid in the country.”
Ackell said he thought the county will ultimately have to build a smaller, more efficient hospital on the basis of a private community hospital.
“In such a hospital, patient care would be improved because there would be more outpatient care. You could have a better outpatient clinic by decreasing the size of the inpatient population. It’s just a matter of who pays,” he said.
Ackell was asked about the recent “sweetheart arrangement” controversy in which Kenneth Hahn, county supervisor.
For the record
The Daily Trojan of May 2 incorrectly reported that the international relations tenured faculty committee had reached a decision on the tenure case of Michael H. Fleet, assistant professor of international relations and political science. The article said that the committee would not reevaluate Fleet’s case unless the Political Science Department reversed its decision to deny Fleet tenure.
Ross N. Berkes, director ofthe School of International Relations, sent a letter to the editor Monday saying that no official decision on Fleet had been made yet The Daily Trojan regrets the error.
University of Southern California
Volume LXVII, Number 124 _Los Angeles, California_Thursday, May 8, 1975
Health VP caught in med center dispute
Daily
Trojan
Action delayed on plans for administration
BY MARJIE LAMBERT and LINDA CIRIGLIANO
Concern about the administration of undergraduate education was the major cause for the President’s Advisory Council’s decision Wednesday to postpone until fall any recommendation on a proposed new administrative structure.
The council was to have submitted its comments on the proposal and the responses /ere to have been summarized and presented to President John R. Hubbard by May 28.
The proposed structure was presented at Wednesday’s meeting by Jackson Cope, Bing professor of English and chairman of the task force that wrote the report. The report calls for an Office of the President, consisting of a president and executive vice-president whose duties would be delegated by the president but whose main function would be budgetary.
A provost would be the chief academic officer of the university, reporting directly to the Office ofthe President. The Office of the Provost would include the provost, an associate provost for graduate studies and an associate provost for student affairs.
A vice-president for health affairs whose responsibility would be basically the same as now
would report to the Office of the President.
A vice-president for administrative services would encompass the duties ofthe current office of vice-president for business affairs, as well as personnel, legal affairs, university computing facilities and other related support services.
He and the vice-president for university affairs—which remains basically unchanged with the responsibility for fundraising and development— would report to the executive vice-president.
All academic deans other than those in the health sciences area would report directly to the provost.
Cope's task force suggested that the provost might want to establish an assistant provost for the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences or a coordinator for undergraduate affairs who would not have any policymaking authority.
Cope said that the authority and functions of the associate provost for student affairs would assure that undergraduate students would not be slighted.
The responsibilities of the associate provost for student affairs, as delineated in the task force’s report, would include “recruitment, admissions, (continued on page 5)
Packets due May 16 for lottery
The process of early registration for fall semester, which will include a lottery7 system for obtaining R cards, has begun. The packets must be turned in by May 16 to qualify for the lottery.
Early registration packets have been mailed to students who are currently enrolled for the spring semester. They were sent to the addresses of students recorded in the computer.
Students who have not received their packets may contact the Registrar’s Office in Student Administrative Services 2, where information on where packets were sent and mailing delays is available.
Blank packets will be available in Student Administrative Services 2 on Monday and Tuesday for those who have not received the computerized packets.
H cards will be available in the respective de-
partments beginning Wednesday. The Registrar's Office is accepting completed registration materials, and those received by 5 p.m. May 16 will be included in the lottery. Packets will be placed in numbered boxes in Student Administrative Services 2.
The lottery to select the processing order of the boxes will be May 19 at 9:30 a.m.
The lottery has been instituted in an attempt to prevent the overnight campouts in front of the Registrar’s Office that resulted from the previous first-come, first-served system for obtaining R cards.
“Under the lottery system it doesn’t matter what box you put it (the packet) in, because the number ofthe box is insignificant,” said William E. Hall, registrar.
(continued on page 5)
TOMORROW'S LEADERS?—Members of Skull and Dagger, a men's honorary society, posed in their initiation outfits on Wednesday. Skull and Dagger is the oldest honor society on campus, and its members have
demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities and have contributed greatly to the university. DT photo by Sharon Swenson.
charged conflicts of interest on the part of instructors and administrators at the Medical School who are also on the county payroll.
“As it applies to the doctors on the faculty, the amount that is paid by the county per line item is not enough for top-notch clinicians,” Ackell said.
“So, our faculty who teach there are paid more by the university, so we can keep them. The problem arose because in
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were receiving supplements from the Medical School to help in the planning of health care services for the county.
“We put a stop to this practice on March 15, because we were concerned that it might be in violation ofthe state’s conflict of interest provisions.”
Ackell said it was his opinion that the Board of Supervisors was just interested in the past practice of double hiring of administrators, and that it would
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physicians working for the county as well as for the university.
“After all,” Ackell said, “if you’re at a patient’s bedside and there are two students with you, you’re both teaching and acting as a physician. It’s hard to distinguish between the two.”
Ackell said that the controversy played no part at all in the School of Medicine’s search for a new dean. Allen W. Mathies has been acting as interim dean
K
CRAFTY LADY—Mankind is capable of much when he teams the earth's raw materials with his hands and his mind. The artistic and the useful usually result. Craftsmen of many materials, minds and skills dis-
m
played their works Tuesday and Wednesday during the semiannual Arts and Crafts Fair in Alumni Park. Here, a woman patiently helps two students select a necklace from her display case. DT photo by Bob Selan.

BY PETER BOYER
Staff Writer
Edmund F. Ackell, vice-' president for health affairs, said Wednesday that he feels he is caught in the middle ofthe dispute between physicians and the county over wages and patient facilities.
Interns and residents at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, Martin Luther King Hospital in Willowbrook and Harbor General Hospital threatened a general strike Monday if demands for higher wages and better patient facilities were not met by the county.
The County-USC Medical Center is the primary teaching facility for the university's Health Sciences Campus.
In an interview. Ackell discussed the threatened strike as well as other key issues affecting the Health Sciences Campus.
"It's hard to respond positively or negatively on the issue
of the strike,” Ackell said. “The patient care facilities at the center leave a lot to be desired, and to bring them up to higher standards would involve a tremendous investment.
“I think the interns and residents are right in terms of patient care facilities. But I do not agree with them in terms of higher pay. They are among the highest paid in the country.”
Ackell said he thought the county will ultimately have to build a smaller, more efficient hospital on the basis of a private community hospital.
“In such a hospital, patient care would be improved because there would be more outpatient care. You could have a better outpatient clinic by decreasing the size of the inpatient population. It’s just a matter of who pays,” he said.
Ackell was asked about the recent “sweetheart arrangement” controversy in which Kenneth Hahn, county supervisor.
For the record
The Daily Trojan of May 2 incorrectly reported that the international relations tenured faculty committee had reached a decision on the tenure case of Michael H. Fleet, assistant professor of international relations and political science. The article said that the committee would not reevaluate Fleet’s case unless the Political Science Department reversed its decision to deny Fleet tenure.
Ross N. Berkes, director ofthe School of International Relations, sent a letter to the editor Monday saying that no official decision on Fleet had been made yet The Daily Trojan regrets the error.
University of Southern California
Volume LXVII, Number 124 _Los Angeles, California_Thursday, May 8, 1975
Health VP caught in med center dispute
Daily
Trojan
Action delayed on plans for administration
BY MARJIE LAMBERT and LINDA CIRIGLIANO
Concern about the administration of undergraduate education was the major cause for the President’s Advisory Council’s decision Wednesday to postpone until fall any recommendation on a proposed new administrative structure.
The council was to have submitted its comments on the proposal and the responses /ere to have been summarized and presented to President John R. Hubbard by May 28.
The proposed structure was presented at Wednesday’s meeting by Jackson Cope, Bing professor of English and chairman of the task force that wrote the report. The report calls for an Office of the President, consisting of a president and executive vice-president whose duties would be delegated by the president but whose main function would be budgetary.
A provost would be the chief academic officer of the university, reporting directly to the Office ofthe President. The Office of the Provost would include the provost, an associate provost for graduate studies and an associate provost for student affairs.
A vice-president for health affairs whose responsibility would be basically the same as now
would report to the Office of the President.
A vice-president for administrative services would encompass the duties ofthe current office of vice-president for business affairs, as well as personnel, legal affairs, university computing facilities and other related support services.
He and the vice-president for university affairs—which remains basically unchanged with the responsibility for fundraising and development— would report to the executive vice-president.
All academic deans other than those in the health sciences area would report directly to the provost.
Cope's task force suggested that the provost might want to establish an assistant provost for the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences or a coordinator for undergraduate affairs who would not have any policymaking authority.
Cope said that the authority and functions of the associate provost for student affairs would assure that undergraduate students would not be slighted.
The responsibilities of the associate provost for student affairs, as delineated in the task force’s report, would include “recruitment, admissions, (continued on page 5)
Packets due May 16 for lottery
The process of early registration for fall semester, which will include a lottery7 system for obtaining R cards, has begun. The packets must be turned in by May 16 to qualify for the lottery.
Early registration packets have been mailed to students who are currently enrolled for the spring semester. They were sent to the addresses of students recorded in the computer.
Students who have not received their packets may contact the Registrar’s Office in Student Administrative Services 2, where information on where packets were sent and mailing delays is available.
Blank packets will be available in Student Administrative Services 2 on Monday and Tuesday for those who have not received the computerized packets.
H cards will be available in the respective de-
partments beginning Wednesday. The Registrar's Office is accepting completed registration materials, and those received by 5 p.m. May 16 will be included in the lottery. Packets will be placed in numbered boxes in Student Administrative Services 2.
The lottery to select the processing order of the boxes will be May 19 at 9:30 a.m.
The lottery has been instituted in an attempt to prevent the overnight campouts in front of the Registrar’s Office that resulted from the previous first-come, first-served system for obtaining R cards.
“Under the lottery system it doesn’t matter what box you put it (the packet) in, because the number ofthe box is insignificant,” said William E. Hall, registrar.
(continued on page 5)
TOMORROW'S LEADERS?—Members of Skull and Dagger, a men's honorary society, posed in their initiation outfits on Wednesday. Skull and Dagger is the oldest honor society on campus, and its members have
demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities and have contributed greatly to the university. DT photo by Sharon Swenson.
charged conflicts of interest on the part of instructors and administrators at the Medical School who are also on the county payroll.
“As it applies to the doctors on the faculty, the amount that is paid by the county per line item is not enough for top-notch clinicians,” Ackell said.
“So, our faculty who teach there are paid more by the university, so we can keep them. The problem arose because in
tho noct port q i n QHrninictrotnrc
were receiving supplements from the Medical School to help in the planning of health care services for the county.
“We put a stop to this practice on March 15, because we were concerned that it might be in violation ofthe state’s conflict of interest provisions.”
Ackell said it was his opinion that the Board of Supervisors was just interested in the past practice of double hiring of administrators, and that it would
n rvt nnnctinn tho 1 ortiti m
physicians working for the county as well as for the university.
“After all,” Ackell said, “if you’re at a patient’s bedside and there are two students with you, you’re both teaching and acting as a physician. It’s hard to distinguish between the two.”
Ackell said that the controversy played no part at all in the School of Medicine’s search for a new dean. Allen W. Mathies has been acting as interim dean
K
CRAFTY LADY—Mankind is capable of much when he teams the earth's raw materials with his hands and his mind. The artistic and the useful usually result. Craftsmen of many materials, minds and skills dis-
m
played their works Tuesday and Wednesday during the semiannual Arts and Crafts Fair in Alumni Park. Here, a woman patiently helps two students select a necklace from her display case. DT photo by Bob Selan.